Comment on We lost Keanu

scrooge@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Keanu Reeves is an actor who has starred in a number of popular movies including Speed, The Matrix, and John Wick. He is revered in the online community for being a wholesome person who tends to do the better thing, or at least avoids being terrible.

  So if he is actually supports the charlatan who made this series then that would be disappointing.

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  • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah! The old Lemmaroo!

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hold my Rufus, I’m going in.

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      • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        We need a switcheroo community so there is something to dive into.

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ok, but who’s the scientist bloke and what’s he claiming?

    Earth is flat? Aliens walk among us? Billionaires are lizards?

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Apocalypse

      In the series, Hancock argues that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors introduced agriculture, monumental architecture and astronomy to hunter-gatherers around the world. He attempts to show how several ancient monuments are evidence of this, and claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering up this alleged evidence.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Reverse nepotism baby that wants to play archaeologist on Netflix. He’s also extremely paranoid that “big archaeology” (lmao) is out to get him because he cannot handle criticism from people that know what they’re talking about. Tldr weirdo on Netflix that thinks he’s a martyr.

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  • norimee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ha, now I wanna watch it. Might be fun if you treat it like it’s Cunk on Earth.

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “And on this grand battlefield, the Aliens had their first successful battle against protonapoleon.”

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      • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        dude

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      His son works for Netflix and got him a show.

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s still nepotism…

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      • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t that be “nepo daddy”

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      • mobius_slip@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        …nepodaddy?

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    what is reverse nepotism?

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    • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      msitopen esrever

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        YVAN EHT NIOJ

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    • leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.

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    • jack@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      His daughter is a Netflix producer or something

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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When you have a famous kid, I’d guess, but I don’t know.

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    the show is fun to watch if you realize it’s just him tearing through the strawmen he set up for himself

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I want to call him Don Quixote, but that almost feels like a compliment.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ancient Aliens is fun because the crazy people are so excited and engaged. They promote willful ignorance and antiscience stuff too, but at least we got Stargate out of the ancient astronaut malarky.

      This guy is boring and smugly antiscience. When the show came out, before I knew who he was and without warching a preview, it seemed like it was going to be about ancient cultures that atalled because of climate change or something along those lines. Nope, took a hard left into stupid territory.

      It is frustrating that these jerks ruin actual discussion about ancient cultures being older than we think. Especially when we keep finding older evidence of innovation or oceanic travel that double our estimates on the earliest examples. Like there had to be a significant period of human innovation prior to the oldest sites we know of with massive stone megaliths. The smaller pieces are just harder to find, or may not be recognizeable as intentionally carved!

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  • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t have a boat in this race, but banning him from otherwise open historical sites because they don’t like his ideas is not scientific, but more like the mediaeval Catholic church.

    Science is full of bigoted thinking as any other discipline. If you don’t already know this, you have never met a scientist.

    Having said all that, it is a silly idea, but I enjoy the incidental geology that he employs to illustrate his argument. Not that I buy into the argument itself.

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    • servobobo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Quacks get banned/shunned because they’re usually obnoxious and abusive, not because they hold fringe ideas. If it was only the latter they’d fit right in in most fields.

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      • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You will have to point out where he was obnoxious or abusive. I’ve not seen either of these traits from watching the show.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My recent favorite is anthropology ignoring all evidence of women hunting because it didn’t fit social morals of the researchers.

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      • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s a good example. Another is from my country, Australia. The idea that the Aborigines were just nomad hunter gatherers was seriously upset by the discovered fish farming settlements in the north of the country as well as the remains of basic stone buildings. Settler farmers have been destroying the evidence of these artifacts for 150 years because they upset the politics of “peaceful European settlement”.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn minions of orthodoxy, I’ll keep my cells from getting bored and then what?

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    • Lobreeze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Such a strange episode

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